Upon successful completion of this course, and its prequel
PHY752, students should be able to critically analyze and solve
--- in many cases exactly but otherwise as a sequence of
controlled approximations --- problems involving classical
electricity and magnetism, and they should be able to exchange
ideas and discuss thoughtfully any topic involving this subject
with their peers and other professional colleagues.

Of course, you may also buy other texts, if you have the means, and
you are encouraged to read other books if you have the time.
In my opinion, Jackson is a great reference. It is a classic
treatise on the subject. But I think it is not the best
textbook for students. In any case, we hope to cover material
taken mostly from the second half of Jackson.Graded
homework problems:These will be due about one or
two weeks after being assigned in lecture.

Reading assignments: Ideally, you should try to do all the exercises in the
assigned Jackson chapters! But I will only collect
for grading those homework problems listed above.

Assignment #1:
For fun
and profit: Get the old E&M qualifier exams and
solve them!

Assignment #3:
Electromagnetic
momentum in a
medium, and the
controversyabout
it, is
discussed at length here.
"Hidden" mechanical momentum is discussed here, but the subject is
also not without controversy(see here
and references therein).

Assignment
#4: For a better appreciation of gauge transformations,
readthis
and perhaps alsothis.